![]() The female chorus handling the vocals ( Brides of Funkenstein) is reminiscent in spots of Patti Labelle‘s 70s work. A funk cover of The Beatles’ “I Want you (She’s So Heavy)” might not read on paper like a good idea, but in Hazel’s capable hands – again, with expert backing from his P-Funk comrades – it makes perfect sense. Hazel rips it up with soaring, echoey, feedback guitar leads on “So Goes the Story,” a stuttery song that recalls Overnite Sensation Zappa, this time with a bit of Isaac Hayes influence thrown into the mix. ![]() Ghostly female chorus vocals form the foundation of “Frantic Moment,” a funky number with all manner of music things bubbling under at times it sounds like a bizarre cross between Stevie Wonder, Frank Zappa and Mahavishnu Orchestra. Hazel lays back and tears out a nonstop solo during “California Dreamin’,” yet he’s never exactly out front with his guitar here instead he’s content to let the arrangement stand on its own. The seven-track album is book-ended by a pair of versions of “California Dreamin’,” a song strong enough to work in virtually any idiom ( Paul Revere and the Raiders offshoot power trio Brotherhood cut a heavy-rocking version in the 60s that owes a stylistic debt to Vanilla Fudge). And while he’s most often associated with the soaring, blistering metallic axework with which he dazzled listeners on such discs as Funkadelic’s 1971 Maggot Brain, on Game, Dames and Guitar Thangs, he’s generally more intent on settling into a groove.īut it’s a tasty groove indeed. ![]() Funk guitarist Eddie Hazel – part of the highly-esteemed Parliament / Funkadelic family – released his own solo LP in 1977. ![]()
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